[Mb-civic] NASA Succeeds In Crashing Craft Into Comet - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

NASA Succeeds In Crashing Craft Into Comet

Debris May Give Insights On Birth of Solar System

By Guy Gugliotta
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 5, 2005; Page A01

PASADENA, Calif., July 4 -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft completed a 
flawless journey to oblivion early Monday, slamming into an onrushing 
comet to vaporize itself in an Independence Day blaze of glory.

Scientists and engineers here at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
cheered as spectacular images taken by a second flyby spacecraft 
positioned nearby confirmed that the "impactor" had scored a perfect 
bull's-eye, smacking into comet Tempel 1 at its lower edge at 1:52 a.m. 
Eastern time, spewing a column of debris that lighted up the heavens.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/04/AR2005070400894.html?nav=hcmodule
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